CanStage premieres a new play by Daamien Atkins
By: Mark Andrew Lawrence Jan. 14, 2007
LUCY
By Damien Atkins
Directed by Eda Holmes
Starring Seana McKenna
Lucy is 13 years old; Lucy is autistic. She sees her mother for the first time in years when her father decides to re-marry and start a new life. Lucy is a play about newfound love between a mother and daughter and the revelations it triggers, including a provocative new theory of evolution.
Directed by Eda Holmes (CanStage's Side by Side by Sondheim), Lucy stars Seana McKenna (CanStage's Wit , Boy Gets Girl) as Vivian with Tony Munch as Gavin, Philippa Domville as Julia, Brendan Murray (CanStage's Twelfth Night) as Morris and Meg Roe as Lucy. Joining Ms. Holmes is a creative team which features set and costume designer Teresa Przybylski (CanStage's Twelfth Night), original music and sound designer Marc Desormeaux (CanStage's Written on Water), lighting designer Andrea Lundy (CanStage's Half Life), stage manager Marinda De Beer (CanStage's The Comedy of Errors) and assistant stage manager Krista Blackwood.
Damien Atkins has acted on most major stages across the country (including at CanStage in The Glass Menagerie). He is a Stratford Festival veteran, both as actor and as the youngest playwright the Festival has ever produced (Good Mother, also starring Seana McKenna). His works as a playwright include Miss Chatelaine (Theatre Passe Muraille/Grand Theatre), Good Mother (Stratford Festival) and Real Live Girl (Buddies in Bad Times/Manitoba Theatre Centre/Grand Theatre), for which he received two Dora Mavor Moore Awards (Best New Musical and Best Actor in a Musical).
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Details:
PREVIEWS: March 5-7, 2007 OPENS: March 8-April 14, 2007 SCHEDULE: Monday-Saturday 8:00 p.m., Wednesday matinee 1:30 p.m., Saturday matinee 2:00 p.m.
TICKETS: $20-$55 LOCATION: CanStage - Berkeley Street Theatre Downstairs, 26 Berkeley StreetBOX OFFICE: Tickets* are available in person at the CanStage Customer Service Centres, 26 Berkeley St. or 27 Front St. E., by telephone at CanStage 416-368-3110 and Ticketmaster at 416-872-1111, and online at www.canstage.com. Rush seats are available for any performance one hour prior to show time. Rush seats are half the regular ticket price. For Monday-night performances only, pay-what-you-can tickets are available in person at the CanStage Box Office beginning at 10:00 a.m. on the day of the performance.
*Single tickets and subscription seats for Lucy available now.
Special Group Rates Available. Contact Group Manager Heather Burns at
416-367-8243 x266 or hburns@canstage.com for more details.
Other activities to enhance your theatre-going experience:
CanStage Talk Backs - These informal post-performance question and answer periods give you an opportunity to meet the artists immediately following a production. Contact Patty Jarvis at 416-367-8243 ext. 245 or pjarvis@canstage.com for details
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